About the Dorks

Just who are these dorks who endeavour to bring you all the latest news and reviews from around Toronto and beyond?

Editor Dorks

Will Perkins

Editor-in-chief and host of the Dork Shelf Podcast. An avid filmgoer and die hard gamer, Will has been writing about film and video games in various capacities for most of his adult life. He co-founded DorkShelf.com with Jeff Brown and Lucas Rizoli over beer & bruschetta in 2009. Email - will@dorkshelf.com


Jonathan Ore

Associate Editor - Jonathan has considerable Dork Cred in video games and Shakespeare, and acceptable Dork Cred in comic books, anime, whiskey and fantasy literature. He's also an associate producer at the CBCNews.ca Community page. Email: jonathan@dorkshelf.com


Andrew Parker

Film Editor - Andrew Parker writes for numerous blogs and publications, including Notes From the Toronto Underground and his more personal pop-culture blog, I Can't Get Laid in This Town. He is also the curator of the Defending the Indefensible series of films at the Toronto Underground Cinema.


Jeff Brown

Comics Editor and co-host of the Geek Nerd Dork Podcast. Email - jeff@dorkshelf.com

Contributing Dorks

Zack Kotzer

This hopeless weirdo is a bit of a culture addict, given an NES and Bubble Bobble at a young age all going downhill from there. Zack is the assistant editor of Canadian culture mag, Steel Bananas as well as a contributing writer to the SPACE Channel, Newsarama and Torontoist. Zack is also working on a new safe haven for nerds called Giygas, though a word of warning, if you ask him about it, he will tell with gusto. Email - zack@dorkshelf.com


Shelagh Rowan-Legg

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Joel Minty

I'm a huge supporter of myself and the things I do. I also like grammar and language mumbo-jumbo, video games, rock tunes, fantasy novels and Futurama. Since it's Dork Shelf, I guess I gotta post something to PROVE MY DORK CRED: At the time of this bio write up, I was sitting 4th out of 66488 trivia junkies on the fb Futurama fan page. I'm a Greater God at 72460 points, (27540 points till next level) Dork!


Noah Taylor

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Jessica Lewis

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Kathleen Corrigan

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Thomas Drance

Thomas Drance is a Toronto-based communications professional and freelance writer. He's a hockey-stats dork who enjoys pretending to be a mysterious retired Russian hockey player on Twitter. At Dork Shelf he reviews television, video games and films on a rather infrequent basis. In real life he sings tenor, and is a passionate consumer of hot-sauce.


Brandon Bastaldo

Brandon Bastaldo is a recent graduate from the University of Toronto's English and Cinema Studies programs. A life long comic book reader, film watcher, and fashion enthusiast, he feels luckier than ever to be reading, writing, and wearing the things he loves. Read his latest thoughts on his blog or here on dorkshelf.com.


Adam Sioui

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Eric Weiss

Eric is a Toronto-based writer, gamer, and general appreciator of geek culture.


Will Sloan

Will Sloan is a writer from Toronto, currently living in New York for Columbia University-related reasons. He has been a film critic, an entertainment journalist, an editor, a reporter, a humorist, a raconteur, and a sex columnist, but he wasn't very good at that last job. One time he made the Korean pop star Rain laugh, but to tell you the truth, it might have been a fake-laugh.


Gavin Stephens

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Phil Brown

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Sasha James

Sasha writes about film, television, and theatre for Dork Shelf. She can also be found on her website, SashaJames.com, and on Twitter (@ThatSashaJames) live-tweeting whatever BBC production is on her television.


Ian MacIntyre

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Brian Crosby

Brian has written for television shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Royal Canadian Air Farce. He’s a big fan of Pixar movies and was personally slighted by Cars. Read his pretty funny blog Brinews.net.


Matt Demers

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Corey Atad

Corey is a Toronto-based writer who enjoys such wonderful activities as procrastinating and sleeping. When he's not doing those things (and sometimes even when he is) he fills his time with as many movies and TV shows as possible. He's also got his own personal blog with a cheesy pun for a title: justAtad.


James Farrington

James is a writer/poet/critic with a passion for (and possibly an obsession with) video games. As much as he loves discussing the joys of playing games, James is also interested in exploring gaming as an art form that is influenced by (and simultaneously influences) dominant cultural norms. Beyond video games and writing James spends his time watching films and cheesy sci-fi television shows. James writes articles and game reviews for Dork Shelf and Extremegamer.ca.


Rajiv Joshi

Recently moved back to Toronto after a year in the United Kingdom, Rajiv is once again and ready to attack anything “fan boy” related. Current weakness: Monopoly iPhone app set to highest difficulty with the “auction” function turned on. Not for the faint of heart fellow lads and ladies..."


Sarrah Young

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Chris Hanney

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Alan Jones

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Jesse Ouimet

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